I an just wondering if it had become the official mint practice to apply a thin silvering over the billon tetradrachma coins as they were about to...
Nice coin with an image of an emperor who is determined to see Rome celebrate its 1000th anniversary and the successful inauguration of the next...
I notice that you wrote "silvered billon" tetradrachma. Do think this coin was a low grade alloy (billon) that was then silvered with a purer...
So much we want to know and so much we do not.
Look up the "Axial Age" for more on your interest.
I do not actively collect these Indo Greek coins but I have three that I picked up at a coin show, one the silver drachma of Antialkidas (?) which...
Thanks and that is a curious divergence. Were these coins considered to be the equivalent in the East to Denarii (and at what exchange rate)or...
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